How I Made It
How I Made It
Building wealth from the ground up: How I Made It is a fortnightly podcast featuring stories from inside the Australian Financial Review's Rich List.Social links:
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Coming soon: How I Made It season 4
How I Made It is back for a 4th season and this time we're giving you can chance to ask a Rich Lister a question yourself. Are you building a company and want to scale up, do you want advice on funding your growth or have you just got an idea and you want to know what to do next, well here is you…
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Summer Series: From golf balls to 1c TVs - how Ruslan Kogan built a $300m empire from $0
His parents moved to Australia with just $90 to their name, raising their young family in a housing commission flat in Melbourne. It was there Ruslan Kogan honed his selling skills, making a buck selling golf balls and washing cars. He’s now worth about $300 million after creating online retailer K…
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Summer Series: How Simon Beard went from 'toolie' to Culture King worth $600m
The How I Made it team is on a summer break but have curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes. In this third episode, Simon Beard joined Julie-anne Sprague in 2022 to chat how he and his wife Tah-nee started Culture Kings as a market stall on the Gold Coast. They’d…
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Summer Series: How Tammy Hembrow built a fitness empire from $400
The How I Made it team is on a summer break but we’ve curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes. Our second episode in this summer series features Tammy Hembrow who joined the Julie-anne Sprague in August 2022 where she shares her story of being told her life was ru…
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Summer Series: How Jack Cowin brought KFC and Hungry Jacks to Australia
Happy New Year! The How I Made it team is on summer break but for your listening enjoyment they have compiled a collection of some of their favourite episodes from our rich catalogue of interviews with the nation’s Rich Listers. The first episode in this summer series features Jack Cowin, the Cana…
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How Sam Kennard built a $2.6b empire storing other people's stuff
Sam Kennard always had ambition to work and grow the family company. But he never expected his dad to give him total control when he was just 24 years of age. This podcast is sponsored by Superloop.
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The sliding doors moment that led typist Cathie Reid to build a $550m fortune
In this week's episode How I Made It podcast, Icon Group founder Cathie Reid chats to Julie-anne Sprague about wanting to be a typist. Instead she became a pharmacist before spotting a gap in the market and becoming an entrepreneur alongside husband Stuart Giles. This podcast is sponsored by Super…
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How online gamer Kevin Gosschalk made $173m stopping internet bad guys
This week on How I Made It, Julie-anne Sprague chats to Young Rich Lister Kevin Gosschalk, the co-founder Arkose Labs on the challenges of going head to head with Google in offering companies solutions to thwart cyber criminals. This podcast is sponsored by Superloop.
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How Mark Carnegie 'thumb-sucked' his way off the Rich List
In this week's episode, Julie-anne Sprague chats to investor and corporate adviser Mark Carnegie on how being born with a silver spoon and having a chip on his shoulder has motivated him to succeed in business. This podcast is sponsored by Superloop.
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How school dropout Nigel Satterley built a $500 million property empire
This week, Nigel Satterley joins Julie-anne Sprague to chat about his journey from Levi's salesman to becoming Australia’s biggest private land developer whose company, Satterley, is worth more than $500 million. This podcast is sponsored by Superloop.
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